[dino_bobba_renno]

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada_Votes_2011/1857462143/ID=1869932038

[ShepherdsDog]

The red book seems to be purple.

[dino_bobba_renno]

I have read through the platform and I can’t see how their costing adds up to the numbers they’re claiming.

[ShepherdsDog]

The national said that they are boosting a lot of stuff from the Conservative budget.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Ya I know but one really good example is the "The Canadian Learning Passport", costed at 1 billion a year. They say that they will give each student $1000 per year to enroll in higher education. ????? There's close to 27,000 students enrolled at the U of C alone. That's 2.7 billion right there. Maybe I'm just misreading it something.

Quote:

A Liberal government will introduce the Canadian Learning Passport, a significant financial
boost for higher education delivered directly to families. It will provide $1,000 a year over four
years for every high school student in Canada to use for college, university or CÉGEP. For students
in low income families, the amount will be $1,500 a year, or an extra $6,000 in total.

[ShepherdsDog]

27 million actually at $1000 per student.

[dino_bobba_renno]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

27 million actually at $1000 per student.

Ah, knew there was something wrong with that, didn't the decimal when I was calculating Very embarrassing

The amount still seems low to me though. That's just one University.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Well, it may not be that far off. There were 1,047,700 students enrolled in 2006 (the last year I can find numbers for) so even with a growth of say 2% they would be in the ball park, but still their numbers are low balled a bit.

[ShepherdsDog]

Do you think they are going to tell the truth...it's not in a politician's nature.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Ya I guess I should have thought of that

[Canadaka]

For the learning passport its $1000 but its cancelling out some existing credits, like for text books. So the actual new money is onlg about half that $1000. But for a student its better since its money up-front rather than a tax credit, plus its more.

[OnTheIce]

ShepherdsDog wrote:

The national said that they are boosting a lot of stuff from the Conservative budget.

They've also vowed to vote down the budget again if the Conservatives win a minority.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Out of all the stuff the Libs have in their platform this is one of the items I like. It's a nice little program. My only fear would be that colleges and universities might see this as an excuse to raise tuitions. Other than that I like it and think it’s well thought out.

I still think I has been under costed though. The true cost of this program will probably be at least 50% higher than what they’re stating.

[Bruce_the_vii]

Today, Friday April the 8th, Ignatieff promised money for Health Care while Harper promised billions of cuts and a balanced budget. Cuts are difficult. For me they had already both promised the world and now they are adding to it.

[OnTheIce]

Bruce_the_vii wrote:

Today, Friday April the 8th, Ignatieff promised money for Health Care while Harper promised billions of cuts and a balanced budget. Cuts are difficult. For me they had already both promised the world and now they are adding to it.

Some of Ignatieff's platform is good, but I don't think he costed this thing properly at all.